<DIV><p>When you’re under pressure to produce a well-designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel. This concise book provides a handy reference to 70 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by more than 400 screenshots from current iOS, Android, and Windows Phone applications.</p><p>User experience professional Theresa Neil (<i>Designing Web Interfaces</i>) walks you through design patterns in a dozen separate categories, including anti-patterns. The full-color second edition includes gestures and social patterns, as well as platform-specific patterns where appropriate; These patterns are applicable just for Windows Phone applications, for instance, or just for Android.</p><p>Pattern categories include:</p><ul><li><b>Navigation:</b> get patterns for primary and secondary navigation </li><li><b>Forms:</b> break the industry-wide habits of bad form design </li><li><b>Tables and lists:</b> display only the most important information </li><li><b>Search, sort, and filter:</b> make these functions easy to use </li><li><b>Tools:</b> create the illusion of direct interaction </li><li><b>Charts:</b> learn best practices for basic chart design </li><li><b>Invitations:</b> invite users to get started and discover features </li><li><b>Controls and feedback:</b> help users perform actions, and provide them with timely feedback </li><li><b>Help:</b> integrate help pages into a smaller form factor </li></ul></div>